"A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun."
As you can see from the title information, this is the tenth book with homicide detective D.D. Warren --- so if you have read other books in this series, you know to expect Flora Dane, as well. If you've never read a book in this series, you can still pick this up and enjoy it --- there's just some backstory that makes it easier to understand some of the details and plot
When D.D. arrives on the scene, she recognizes the wife as Evie Carter, a woman involved in a case from many years back when Evie's father was killed in an accidental shooting. Now that Evie appears to have shot a computer and maybe her husband, was that incident from years ago truly an accident? And what is Evie's husband's connection to Flora Dane?
It definitely makes it easier to explain if you have read the other books in the series, mostly because you have an understanding of D.D.'s background, Flora Dane's background, and how they are connected to each other. This is a great story where the details are uncovered in layers, one at a time, so it's not easy to make any predictions on how to solve the mystery of the murder. Like her other books, I feel Gardner excels at building a story quickly and combining it with interesting characters and a quick pace, so you can find yourself engrossed in the book . . . and maybe not realizing you've been sitting and reading as long as you have.
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